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Windows Server
Software-Defined
Windows Server, Hyper-converged Network Controller Storage Spaces Direct Guarded Fabric PowerShell DSC
Windows Server 2016 Virtualization technologies include updates to A centralized, programmable point of automation to manage, Using industry-standard servers with local-attached drives, SSD As a cloud service provider or enterprise private cloud Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a
Hyper-V, Hyper-V Virtual Switch, and Guarded Fabric and Shielded configure, monitor, and troubleshoot virtual and physical network provides highly available, highly scalable software-defined administrator, you can use a guarded fabric to provide a more configuration management platform built into Windows that is
infrastructure in your datacenter. storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. secure environment for VMs. A guarded fabric consists of one based on open standards. DSC is flexible enough to function

Datacenter
Virtual Machines (VMs), that improve security, scalability, and
reliability. Updates to failover clustering, networking, and storage Its architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment. Host Guardian Service (HGS) - typically, a cluster of three nodes - reliably and consistently in each stage of the deployment lifecycle
make it even easier to deploy and manage these technologies when plus one or more guarded hosts, and a set of shielded virtual (development, test, pre-production, production), as well as during
used with Hyper-V. machines (VMs). scale-out.

Virtualization Virtualized Infrastructure

Hyper-V Hypervisor
Networking Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization technology for
Windows. The hypervisor is core to virtualization. It is the
processor-specific virtualization platform that allows multiple
isolated operating systems to share a single hardware platform. Administrators use a Management Tool that interacts directly with
Storage Network Controller. Network Controller provides information
about the network infrastructure, including both virtual and
• DSC supports “continuous deployments,” so you can deploy
configurations over and over without breaking anything.
physical infrastructure, to the Management Tool. Shielded VM • DSC configurations only apply settings that have changed from
The data and state of a shielded VM are protected against the original, for faster deployments.
Security
Virtual Machines

Datacenter Firewall inspection, theft and tampering, from both malware and
• DSC can be used on-premises, and in a public or private Cloud
datacenter administrators.
When deployed and offered as a service, tenant administrators environment.
SSD introduces the new Software Storage Bus and leverages
can install and configure firewall policies to help protect virtual
Management
many of the features you know today in Windows Server, such as • You can integrate DSC with any Microsoft or non-Microsoft
Hypervisor
networks from unwanted traffic from Internet and intranet net- Failover Clustering, the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) file system, solution, as long as you can execute a PowerShell script on the
works. Server Message Block (SMB) 3, and Storage Spaces. target system.

Deploy Hardware
Storage Quality of Service
System Center VMM
Centrally monitor and manage storage performance for virtual
Microsoft Services machines using Hyper-V and the Scale-Out File Server roles, Virtual Machine Manager is part of the System Center suite, used

Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions
Preferred Microsoft partners, DataON, Fujitsu, Lenovo, QCT,
SuperMicro, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell EMC, can get you
up and running quickly and efficiently with Microsoft-validated
Guest clustering with Shared VHDX improving storage resource fairness between multiple virtual to configure, manage and transform traditional datacenters to
provide a unified management experience across on-premises,
machines.
Flexible and secure, and not bound to the underlying storage service provider, and the Azure cloud.
topology, Shared VHDX removes the need to present the physical
underlying storage to a guest OS. The new Shared VHDX supports
online resize. • Shielded VMs will only run in fabrics designated as owners of the

design and best practices for seamless deployment and steady state
VM.

operation. • Shielded VMs are encrypted by BitLocker, or other means, so that

only designated owners can run them.
Microsoft partners offer an array of Windows Server
• Running VMs can be converted to shielded.
Software-Defined (WSSD) solutions that work with Windows Server
to deliver high-performance storage over hyper-converged
infrastructure. Hyper-converged solutions bring together compute, Host Guardian Service
The service provider administrator, or the tenant administrator,
storage, and networking on industry-standard servers and Host Guardian Service holds the keys to legitimate fabrics, as well
can manage the Datacenter Firewall policies via the network
components for improved datacenter intelligence and control. as encrypted virtual machines. • Datacenter: Configure and manage datacenter components as a
controller.
single fabric in VMM.
Partners offer three WSSD solutions
• Virtualization hosts: VMM can add, provision, and manage Hyper-V
• Shared VHDX can reside on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) on block Switch Embedded Teaming and VMware virtualization hosts and clusters.
storage, or on SMB file-based storage.
Software- Enterprise-grade shared storage solution built on server SET is an alternative NIC Teaming solution that you can use in • Networking: VMM provides network virtualization, including
Storage QoS is built into the Microsoft software-defined storage
Defined Storage node clusters replaces traditional SAN/NAS at a much • Protected: Shared VHDX supports Hyper-V Replica and host-level environments that include Hyper-V and the Software Defined
lower cost. Organizations can quickly add storage capacity solution provided by Scale-Out File Server and Hyper-V using support for creating and managing virtual networks and network
(SDS) backup. Networking (SDN) stack.
as needs grow over time. Support for all-flash NVMe drives SMB3 protocol. A new Policy Manager provides central storage gateways.
unrivaled performance. performance monitoring.
• Storage: VMM can discover, classify, provision, allocate, and assign
Hyper- Highly virtualized compute and storage are combined in Hyper-V Replica local and remote storage.
Converged the same server node cluster, making them easier to
Storage Replica
Infrastructure
(HCI) Standard
deploy, manage, and scale. By eliminating traditional IT
compute, storage and networking silos, you
Integrated software-based VM replication across the network with
certificates. Not bound to server, network or storage hardware on Disaster recovery and preparedness make possible zero data loss,
Microsoft Project Honolulu
can simplify your infrastructure.
either site. with the ability to synchronously protect data on different racks,
Honolulu is a locally deployed, browser-based, management
floors, buildings, campuses, cities, and countries with more
Device Health Attestation
Hyper- Comprehensive “software-defined datacenter in a box” toolset that enables on-premises administration of Windows
efficient use of multiple datacenters.
Converged adds Software-Defined Networking and Security Assurance Servers with no Azure or cloud dependency. Honolulu gives IT
Infrastructure features to HCI Standard. This makes it easy to scale
Attestation enables enterprises to raise the security bar of their
Software Load Balancing
compute, storage, and networking up and down to meet
Admins full control over all aspects of their Windows Server
(HCI) Premium
demand just like publice cloud services. organization to hardware monitored and attested security, with infrastructure, and is particularly useful for management on
SLB enables multiple servers to host the same workload, minimal or no impact on operation costs. private networks that are not connected to the Internet.
providing high availability and scalability.

Configure Scale out load balancing capabilities using SLB VMs on the same
Hyper-V servers you use for your other VM workloads. SLB
Windows Server 2016 supports the rapid creation and deletion of load balancing
endpoints for Cloud Service Provider operations. SLB supports
Software-Defined technologies tens of gigabytes per cluster, provides a simple provisioning
model, and is easy to scale out and in.
The software-defined technology in Windows Server 2016 provides a
• No need for other virtual machine replication technologies,
platform for hyper-converged infrastructure solutions that help reducing costs. Synchronous Replication
organizations sustain efficiency and adjust to changing business
• Handles live migration automatically.
needs. 1. Application writes data
Publishing the web server to DNS and setting up the corporate
2. Log data is written and the data is replicated to the remote site

Manage
• Simple configuration and management — either through Hyper-V
firewall can allow you to access Honolulu from the public internet,
Manager, PowerShell, or with Azure Site Recovery. 3. Log data is written at the remote site Hardware trusted mode, shown above, provides the highest
enabling you to connect to, and manage, your servers from
4. Acknowledgement from the remote site level of assurance, with TPM v2.0 hardware rooted trust and
anywhere with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.
System Center 2016 5. Application write acknowledged compliance with code-integrity policy for key-release.

Management and automation t & t1 : Data flushed to the volume, logs always write through

Cloud management with support for LAMP stack and VMware,

including monitoring resources and services in Azure and Amazon
Web Services.

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